Voorbeelden van witchcraft

• Still, it can be confidently affirmed that nonspectral acts of witchcraft provided the one charge that most surely drew the court's attention.

• While the accusation of treason often came from guerrillas themselves, the witchcraft cases were often brought before guerrillas by civilians.

• The other notion concerned the supernatural, expressed as magic and witchcraft.

• The longevity of the beliefs which linked witchcraft to political power was in part owing to the role of ocimbandas.

• There is also considerable variety in the perceived social organization of witchcraft.

• However, two of the six charged with non-spectral acts of witchcraft had also confessed.

• Yet many stakeholders are caught directly in trans-local social networks, which apparently exert an ever-increasing impact on modern structures of witchcraft accusations.

• In the same vein, witchcraft trials appear to have started earlier and reached higher intensity in areas containing major towns or trading centres.